Dear Jon,
Install the package rpmdevtools from EPEL repository and setup Your own
build tree in $HOME of some non-root user. Please, avoid any builds as
root and don't build package as Your current (desktop) non-root user.
It's good idea to create user for the packages building. Then setup the
build tree in his $HOME directory (execute rpmdev-setuptree).
I wish You success!
Yours
Vesselin
On 09/12/2011 07:00 PM, Jon Detert wrote:
> i'm a newbie at building rpms. I made a few rpms years ago, but can't now make one on Centos 5.
>
> In /usr/local/rpmbuild, there are 5 subdirs: BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS tmp
>
> When I type: rpmbuild -ba /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec
>
> I get 'file not found' errors, for paths in /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp:
> error: File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d
> error: File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo
> RPM build errors:
> File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d
> File not found: /usr/local/rpmbuild/tmp/centos-release-cr-ihc-buildroot/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo
>
> All i did was to:
> 1) put a tarball in SOURCES,
> 2) put a spec file in SPECS,
> 3) rpmbuild -ba my spec file
>
> Did I miss a step? If not, here's the contents of my tarball and spec file:
>
> The tarball in SOURCES is named: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz
> the contents of which are:
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:40:01 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:39:57 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/
> drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2011-09-09 15:40:39 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/
> -rw-r--r-- root/root 523 2011-09-09 15:35:59 centos-release-cr-ihc-1/etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo
>
> my spec file is /usr/local/rpmbuild/SPECS/centos-release-cr-ihc.spec
> the contents of which are:
> Summary: Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository
> Name: centos-release-cr-ihc
> Version: 1
> Release: 1
> Source0: centos-release-cr-ihc-1.tar.gz
> License: GPL
> Group: IHC-config
> BuildArch: noarch
> BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-buildroot
> %description
> Package to set up IHC use of the centos-cr repository
> %prep
> %setup -q
> %build
> %install
> install -m 0755 -d /etc/yum.repos.d
> install -m 0755 etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo
> %clean
> rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
> %post
> echo " "
> echo "Yay IHC IS Team!"
> %files
> %dir /etc/yum.repos.d
> /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-cr.repo
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
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